"We are of the opinion that instead of letting books grow mouldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read."
— Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth)

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. "
— Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea)

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
— Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth)

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
— Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

"'I say, you do have a heart!'

'Sometimes,' he replied. 'When I have the time.' "
— Jules Verne (Around the World in Eighty Days and 5 Weeks in a Balloon)

"On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man"
— Jules Verne

"Mobilis in Mobile"
— Jules Verne

"“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”"
— Jules Verne

"But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,..."
— Jules Verne (Around the World in Eighty Days)

"On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it."
— Jules Verne

"[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one."
— Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth)

"'Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?'"
— Jules Verne

"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."
— Jules Verne

"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."
— Jules Verne (Around the World in Eighty Days)

"In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned."
— Jules Verne

""I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread." "
— Jules Verne (Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon Direct, 200, 000 Leagues Under the Sea)

"Je m'aperçois qu'il n'est pas inutile de voyager, si l'on veut voir du nouveau."
— Jules Verne (Round the World in 80 Days)

"Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea flowers...have no soul. "
— Jules Verne